Political Gabfest - The "Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are joined by Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to discuss the state of Republican politics, Brexit and the most recent Supreme Court rulings.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 30th, 2016, the live from the Aspen Ideas Festival Edition. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm joined at the St. Regis Hotel in Aspen, Colorado, as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival by Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine to my left, and John Dickerson host to Face the Nation to my further left. |
| 0:35.1 | On this week's Gab Fest, how could anyone possibly believe |
| 0:39.3 | that less fortunate Americans |
| 0:40.6 | should be indignant about a privileged cosmopolitan elite |
| 0:44.2 | harvesting all the spoils of capitalism? |
| 0:47.4 | I don't know how they could possibly believe that |
| 0:49.8 | in a place like Aspen, it just seems impossible. |
| 0:52.8 | We will talk about Brexit and Trumpism and the |
| 0:56.2 | terrifying forces of nationalism and populism that are gathering strength around the world. |
| 1:01.3 | Then the Supreme Court issued its most sweeping ruling in generation around abortion rights |
| 1:06.7 | is the court's conservative counter-revolution over. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter, and there's going to be a special Slate Plus this week. It's not going to be, as part of the show, you're going to look in your feed later, Slate Plus subscribers, and you can get a special interview that John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert did at 92nd Street Y last month. If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, |
| 1:28.6 | you can get it by going to slate.com slash Gatfest Plus. Also, in Washington on July 13th, |
| 1:34.3 | we have a live show at the Warner Theater. You can get tickets for that show at slate.com |
| 1:39.2 | slash live. It's going to be a great show. It'll be right before the conventions. So join us there, |
| 1:44.2 | slate.com slash live. Is anyone in this room planning to vote for Hillary Clinton? |
| 1:53.0 | And is anyone in this room planning to vote for Donald Trump? |
| 1:59.7 | So the irony of the conversation that we're about to have is not lost on us. |
| 2:04.6 | We are sitting... |
| 2:05.7 | Could you help the audience with a translation of what may have happened since then? |
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